A few years ago, Gabriel “Fluffy” Iglesias thought about walking away from stand-up. He’d been doing comedy at the highest levels for 25 years, and as the first comic to sell out Dodger stadium as part of the Netflix Is A Joke festival, he felt he had peaked.
“Part of me wanted to retire the next day,” he says now, “because how am I supposed to top this?”
Had he been a little older, Iglesias insists he would have. But at 48, he still has the energy to keep going — albeit with a slightly scaled back schedule (more on that later) — and he enjoys it too much to stop. Audiences still seem to enjoy it too: Iglesias recently ranked No. 3 on Billboard’s annual Highest Grossing Stand-Up Tours list with a $43 million haul. So, he searched instead for a new goal, a carrot to
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